Famous People from Lancashire

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A

• Joe Abercrombie
• Barry Adamson
• Donald Adamson
• Thomas Adamson (master gunner)
• Thomas Adamson (priest)
• Anthony Anderson (theologian)
• James Anderton
• Sue Arrowsmith
• Hugh Ashton
• John de Ashton (military commander)
• William Aspinwall (minister)
• Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Lever
• Richard Assheton
• John Atherton (died 1573)
• John Atherton (died 1617)
• John Atherton (pioneer)

B

• Nancy Banks-Smith
• John Barnes (monk)
• Laura Barton
• Sarah Bates (singer)
• Arnold Beckett
• Tony Bell
• Kristyan Benedict
• Frank Bennett (occultist)
• Thomas Billington (executioner)
• William Billington (poet)
• Iris Birtwistle
• Andrew Boardman
• Charles Booth (social reformer)
• Martin Booth
• Alfred Allen Booth
• William Booth (bishop)
• Robert Bootle
• Timothy Bostock
• Mary Bousted
• Orlando Charnock Bradley
• Richard Bradshaigh
• Steven Bramhall
• Jack Brennan (footballer, born 1892)
• Samantha Brennan
• Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater
• Tom Brindle (politician)
• Vince Broderick
• Matt Brown (broadcaster)
• Paul Brown (cricketer)
• Paul Bryson
• Mark Burns (cricketer)
• Tom Burns (bishop)
• John Byron (died 1450)

C

• Leanne Callaghan
• Georgina Callander
• Josiah Chorley
• Grahame Clarke
• William Covell
• Joanne Colan
• Cometan, founder of Astronism
• Ray Connolly
• William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers
• Robert Cooke (officer of arms)
• Brian Cookson
• Colin Cowperthwaite
• Mark Crawley
• John Croft (MP)
• Jon Crossley

D

• Dallam family
• Thomas Dallam
• Alex Davies (cricketer)
• Stephen Dearden
• Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
• Steve Diggle
• Simon Dutton (cricketer)

E

• Terry Eagleton
• Thomas Eccleston (Jesuit)
• Russell Edmonds
• Trevor Elliott (geoscientist)
• Ian Entwistle
• Chris Evans (presenter)
• Roger Evans (London politician)

F

• George Farington
• Henry Farrington
• William Farrington
• John Fawcett (organist)
• Henry Fell
• Leonard Fell
• Thomas Fell
• Roger Fenton (priest)
• Henry Borron Fielding
• Jonathan Fielding (cricketer)
• Henry Finch (priest)
• Christopher Finegan
• Stanley Fink, Baron Fink
• Richard Fleetwood
• Thomas Fleetwood (of the Vache)
• Carey Foster
• Darron Foy
• M. E. Francis
• Gareth Frodsham

G

• Bamber Gascoyne (the elder)
• Ian Gemmell
• Gilbert Gerard (judge)
• Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet
• William Gerard
• Nathan Gladwell
• Don Godden
• Thomas Greenall
• Alice Greenwood
• Ben Greenwood
• Samuel Gregson

H

• Christopher Hall (cricketer)
• David Halliwell (cricketer)
• Cuthbert Halsall
• Norman Halsall
• Lynne Hamilton
• James Harrington (Yorkist knight)
• John Harrington of Hornby
• Nicholas Harrington
• Edward Harrison (physician)
• Jo Hartley
• George Harwood
• Nicholas Henshall
• Richard Hetherington
• David Heyes (cricketer)
• Anthony Higgin
• High Sheriff of Lancashire
• Richard Hignett
• John Hitchmough (cricketer, born 1958)
• John Hitchmough (cricketer, born 1962)
• Harry Hodgkinson (writer)
• Kenneth Holding
• Richard Holland (16th-century MP)
• Thelma Holt
• William Holt (Jesuit)
• Ellen Hooton
• Simon Hopkinson
• Roland Horridge
• Richard Houghton (died 1559)
• Janni Howker
• Doug Hoyle
• Hulton family of Hulton
• Stinson Hunter

I

• Diane Ibbotson
• Ralph Ipres

J

• Ada Jones
• Marie Joseph

K

• Andrew Kennedy (cricketer, born 1949)
• Angela Kirby

L

• Rosemary Lain-Priestley
• Thomas Langton (died 1569)
• Zachary Langton
• Vida Latham
• Derek Leaver (chemist)
• Bill Lawton
• David Leather
• William Leigh
• Thomas Lever
• Thomas Lister (Jesuit)
• Albert George Long
• John Longworth (businessman)
• Richard Longworth (Cambridge)

M

• David Macaulay
• Richard Maden
• Andy Mapple
• Thomas L. Martin
• Heber Robert McBride
• Anthony McKenna
• Priscilla Bright McLaren
• Paul Meehan
• Andrew Mercer (cricketer)
• Andrew Miller (cricketer, born 1987)
• Michael Mingos
• Richard Molyneux (died 1397)
• Roger de Montbegon
• William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle
• Bel Mooney
• Brian Morris (art director)
• Joseph Acton Morris
• Tom Mottram
• Peter Mullen
• Iain Murray (author)

N

• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
• Paul Nicholls (actor)
• Elli Norkett
• Norreys
• Thomas Norris (1765–1852)
• William Norris (1501–1568)
• Enos Nuttall
• Alice Nutter (alleged witch)

P

• Richard Parkes (clergyman)
• John and Donald Parkinson
• Matthew Parkinson
• Richard Parkinson (priest)
• David Parsons (cricketer, born 1954)
• David Pearson (cricketer)
• Edwin Picton
• James Pilkington (bishop)
• Robert Pilkington (English MP)
• Ernest Powell
• Lucy Powell
• Andrew Procter (cricketer)

R

• Anne Rafferty
• John Ratcliffe (16th-century MP)
• Peter J. Ratcliffe
• Elizabeth Redgate
• Clare Rendlesham
• Thomas Ridpath
• Hannah Rigby
• John Rigmayden
• Edward Rishton
• Sara Roache
• Andrew Robertson (engineer)
• Roger the Poitevin
• James Roscoe
• Saffie Rose Roussos
• Robert Row
• Ernest Ryder
• John Rylands

S

• Atul Sachdeva
• Kevin Sample
• Laura Sandeman
• John Sandys
• Joseph Schofield
• Robert Seddon
• Harry Bolton Seed
• George Sessford
• Ralph Shaa
• Steven Sharp
• John Sharples Sr.
• William Arthur Shaw
• Richard Sheale
• Richard Sherborn
• Herbert Shutt
• Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, 5th Baron Shuttleworth
• Richard Shuttleworth (MP for Lancashire)
• David Smith (cricketer, born 1970)
• Michael Smith (darts player)
• Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh
• David Snellgrove (cricketer)
• John de Sotheron
• John Southworth (MP)
• Frederick Standish
• Thomas Standish
• Thomas Stanley (1749–1816)
• Thomas Stanley (died 1576)
• Anna Stec
• Kenneth Stoddart
• Herbert Arthur Stonehouse
• George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange
• Joe Stretch
• Roger Strickland
• Arthur Sutton
• George Lowe Sutton
• Malcolm Swift

T

• Alan Tabern
• Thomas Talbot (MP for Lancashire)
• George Taylor (British Army officer)
• Joelle Taylor
• Adam Thomas
• Philip Thomas (cricketer)
• Ryan Thomas
• Charles Thompson (rugby union)
• George Threlfall (engineer)
• Hugh Tootell
• Simon Towneley
• William Charles Townsend
• Mary Tuck
• Harry Tunstill
• Elizabeth Tyldesley

V

• Geoffrey de Valognes

W

• Alfred Wainwright
• Emma Walmsley
• Joshua Walmsley
• John Warburton (fascist)
• Ian Weathrall
• Duncan Whalley
• David White (English cricketer)
• William Whitfield I
• Charles Richard Whittaker
• Jason Whittaker (cricketer)
• John Whittaker (businessman)
• Alan Williams (bishop)
• Thomas Wilson (schoolmaster)
• Tommy Wilson (umpire)
• Stuart Wood (cricketer)
• William Woodhouse (artist)
• Tim Woolcock
• James Wootton-Davies
• Henry Worsley-Taylor
• Robert Worsley (died 1585)
• Robert Worsley (MP for Callington)
• Robert Worsley (MP for Lancashire)

Y

• Humphrey Yates